What would you choose to have in your flock?

[MayBerg]

And why the choice?

Would you choose to add:
A Welsummer rooster OR
A Barred Rock rooster?

Please note. The flock is 17 hens. Flock Already have 1 brahma rooster named Banana Brahma and a FBCM rooster named Monsieur Jacques Marans.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

And why the choice?

Would you choose to add:
A Welsummer rooster OR
A Barred Rock rooster?

Please note. The flock is 17 hens. Flock Already have 1 brahma rooster named Banana Brahma and a FBCM rooster named Monsieur Jacques Marans.

I wouldn't add another with that few hens unless you're hatching him out in the flock under a broody

 

[MayBerg]

I wouldn't add another with that few hens unless you're hatching him out in the flock under a broody

No haTching. Was thinking abt another one, that's all. What is the ratio of rooster to hen?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

No haTching. Was thinking abt another one, that's all. What is the ratio of rooster to hen?

It varies between flocks and breed, but adding a grown rooster to a flock that already has a rooster or multiple is almost always a recipe for chaos unless you have a ton of space and hens. At 17 hens, you'd be down to less than 6 per male, and they don't actually divide hens nice and neat like that. It would just not be a good idea

 

[MayBerg]

It varies between flocks and breed, but adding a grown rooster to a flock that already has a rooster or multiple is almost always a recipe for chaos unless you have a ton of space and hens. At 17 hens, you'd be down to less than 6 per male, and they don't actually divide hens nice and neat like that. It would just not be a good idea

Thank you so much.
I didn't think of it like that. I haven't have chicken in so long. The ones I have are juvenile, so they are growing up together. Do you foresee a problem with them? I have a bantam roo with them, Popcorn doesn't really bother the rooster. He has his bantam counterpart with him. My kids are attached to Popcorn as the first chicken they had. So he's not going anywhere.